With so much information released at once, it’s easy to lose track of what’s going on, so we prepared this guide to essential information about The Panama Papers and how they’re shaking the world.

What are the Panama Papers?

They’re not actually paper at all, and go far beyond Panama. The papers are a leak of documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in helping the rich, powerful, and — sometimes — the corrupt from all over the world hide their money.

An anonymous source provided the documents to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which in turn shared them with more than 100 other media organizations through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Fusion was one of those partner organizations. Collaborating in secret over the past year, the partners sifted the documents for vital information and evidence of unethical or illegal behavior.

How big a leak are we talking about here?

The files consist of about 2.6 terabytes of data spread out over 11.5 million documents, making it one of the largest clandestine information dumps ever seen.

Who?

Not directly, but the documents show several of his close associates, including lifelong friend Sergei Roldugin, ran transactions through Mossack Fonseca that look very much like money laundering and influence-peddling.

Has anyone gotten in trouble over this yet?

The story just broke over the weekend, and both Mossack Fonseca and the people implicated are still sending off denials and “no comments” as fast as they can, but there have been a few reactions.

Goebbels? MSM?

tl;dr?

Dozens of world leaders implicated as having used firm to hide vast fortunes.

There have been no direct consequences to the leak yet, but people (like the Icelanders and their yogurt) want answers.

So it sounds like not a lot has happened so far.

Give it time. The existence of the papers was just revealed over the weekend. Law enforcement agencies are still looking into if laws were broken and if anyone could be prosecuted over the revelations. More information is going to come out, whether from the papers or from investigations spurred from the initial release — including here at Fusion.